'More relaxed' Solar Bears face 3rd elimination game in row |Video

The Orlando Solar Bears have a chance to tie their ECHL Eastern Conference playoff series against the Cincinnati Cyclones when they host Game 6 Tuesday night at 7 at the Amway Center. The Solar Bears trail 3-2.

The Orlando Solar Bears have a chance to tie their ECHL Eastern Conference playoff series against the Cincinnati Cyclones when they host Game 6 Tuesday night at 7 at the Amway Center. The Solar Bears trail 3-2.

"With our backs against the wall, everybody in the locker room performs best," the Solar Bears defenseman said. "Everyone is definitely more relaxed.

"The pressure is on them. We just have to go out there and play our game. They're the ones that have to close it out. It's hard to close out a series."

Don't the Cyclones know it. The Solar Bears fell behind 3-0 in the series, including losing the first two games at home by a combined 11-5 score, and faced elimination games in Cincinnati on Friday and Saturday nights.

Orlando won both, including a 3-2 decision in Game 5 on Baier's goal 5 minutes, 13 seconds into overtime.

"We're in our own rink and in our own beds," Solar Bears coach Vince Williams said. "That's important, and we need it now.

"We put ourselves in a bit of a position where our backs are against the wall, but we've been in these situations before."

The Solar Bears' season has been marked by come-from-behind victories, including prevailing in nine of 14 games that went into overtime or a shootout. In Game 5 against the Cyclones, they came back from a 2-0 first-period deficit to force overtime.

The winner of the Solar Bears-Cyclones series will face the eighth-seeded Fort Wayne Komets, who eliminated the top-seeded Reading Royals in five games in their quarterfinal series. The Solar Bears are the Eastern Conference's fourth seed, with Cincinnati seeded fifth.

"We only need to win one game," Williams said. "We're not thinking too far ahead. We have to come in [Tuesday], have a good skate and be ready to go. You win that game and then go from there."

Said Baier: "Those last two games were huge for us as far as momentum goes. We had the feeling we were going to win [Game 5]. There was really no doubt in any of our minds, and that's a huge thing for the confidence of the team."

Goalie Christopher Gibson saved a series-high 41 shots Saturday night in the first playoff game of his career. Gibson was reassigned to Orlando from the Toronto Marlies, one of the Solar Bears' American Hockey League affiliates, on Saturday after goalie Maxime Clermont sustained what the team described as a "lower-body'' injury in Game 4.

Clermont is not expected to play in the rest of this series, but his availability after that is not determined.

"It's always fun when you get to play in playoffs, especially when you're down 3-1, and you know you have to win," Gibson said.

"We're down, and the only thing we can do is have fun and enjoy these games that we do have."

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